Malaria Diagnosis And Treatment

The disease may manifest itself after an incubation of days to months. Once the parasites build up in the blood, symptoms are non-specific; fever, chills, body aches, diarrhea and vomiting. At this point the only way to confirm is finding the parasites in blood. These early stages resemble many other febrile diseases.
Paroxysms (due to rupture and release of the parasite and metabolic products into the system), happen every 48-72 hours depending on the species. There is a cold stage which leads to teeth chattering, shaking chills followed by a hot stage (fever) where temperatures may reach 106°F. Convulsions may develop particularly in children. Untreated P. falciparum (the life-threatening species) can lead to severe malaria. Severe malaria is characterized by cerebral malaria, severe anemia, renal filure (black water fever), respiratory distress and bleeding disorders and shock.

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease caused by the parasite Plasmodium. It is a serious and sometimes fatal disease, usually causing a high fever in its victims with associated chills, shivering, headache, vomiting, poor appetite, weakness, body aches, joint pain and, in its severe forms, anaemia, multiple organ failures, convulsions, altered consciousness, coma and, ultimately, death. Although malaria can potentially become life threatening, illness and death from the disease is totally preventable.

Taking antimalarial drugs - this in itself does not prevent infection with the malaria parasites which comes from mosquito bites, but it acts to prevent the development of the disease by halting the development of the parasites, hence it's also known as malaria suppression in some quarters. The antimalarial drugs taken for prevention can also be used for treatment of the disease, but for prevention they are usually taken daily, weakly or sometimes even monthly and in doses usually lower than for treatment. The use of preventive antimalarial drugs for prolonged periods, however, is not very practical because of cost issues, side effects of the drugs, or even development of drug resistance by the malaria parasites, so for this reason this method of malaria prevention is usually advocated for those most at risk of developing life threatening malaria like pregnant women, young children, travelers from areas with no malaria, people living with HIV/AIDS and sickle cell disease sufferers.

The risk of malaria is high in South America, Africa, south-east and Far East Asia. But this should be taken only as a guide as the risk can change and it is advised that expert advice be obtained before traveling to a potentially malarial destination. You are advised to take preventative drugs a week before entering the malarial area, continue during the trip and for four weeks after returning home.

The first symptoms will appear between 10 and 28 days of infection. The patient will then show signs of chills, fever, headache, muscle ache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal cramps. The parasites continue to multiply and unless the disease is treated, death is likely.

Malaria is a disease, as noted by the Columbia Encyclopedia & the WHO, caused by parasites (protozoan parasites of genus Plasmodium) that infect the red blood cells of the body. These parasites typically enter the human body through mosquito bites. The Anopheles (female) mosquito is the sole carrier of these parasites since male mosquitoes do not feed on blood. When an infected mosquito bites a person for food supply, sporozoites in the mosquito's saliva get into the bloodstream and migrate to the liver. Within 30 minutes of entering the human body, these sporozoites infect hepatocytes and multiply rapidly.

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It's been observed that for a day or two before the actual fever sets in, the patient may suffer headaches, vague body and limb pain, accompanied as well by a feeling of chill, and a slight rise of temperature. An acute malarial attack comes in three stages: the cold stage, the hot stage, and the sweating stage.

These days, traditional medical methods and treatments are widely used to treat malaria, and are often more readily available and much cheaper than Western medicine, however, traditional medicine is s not without imits, as obviously there are few established clinical data on a specific herb's safety and efficacy, and there is generally less consensus, even among traditional healers, on which plants, mixtures or doses are the most effective. Lastly, the extent and concentration of active ingredients in a specific plant may considerably vary, and would depend on several factors.